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Theodora, Roman empress - ܡܠܟܬܐ

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"Raised as a child acrobat in the circus, Theodora married the future emperor Justinian I in 523."1

Names

  • ܡܠܟܬܐ ܬܐܘܕܘܪܐ4
  • Theodora, Roman empress
  • ܡܠܟܬܐ
  • ܡܰܠܟܬܐ ܬܶܐܘܳܕܳܘܪܰܐ4
  • ܬܐܕܘܪܐ6
  • القيصرة ثاودورة3
  • Tēʾōḏōrā
  • Tēʾōḏōrā6
  • Theodora5
  • Theodora, Roman empress
  • Théodora6
  • Theodora (Empress)1

Floruit

527-548

Death

0548-06-28

Death

548

Sex

female10

Notes

"Raised as a child acrobat in the circus, Theodora married the future emperor Justinian I in 523."1 "Before her rise to the throne as the wife of emperor Justinian, Theodora was had been an actress, a profession which gave rise to rumours that she had been a prostitute. John of Ephesus remembers Theodora fondly because she protected a large number of miaphysite monks and clerics in Constantinople until her death in 548."9
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  • 1 S. A. Harvey, Theodora (Empress), in The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 401. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Ignatius Aphram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd revised (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 300. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and اغناطيوس افرام الاول برصوم, كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, الطبعة الرابعة4th ed. (Holland: مطبعة ابن العبري بدير مار افرام السريانيBar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 261. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and ܕܒܝܬ ܒܪܨܘܡܐܝܓܢܐܛܝܘܣ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܩܕܡܝܐ, ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani and ܕܘܠܒܐܢܝܦܝܠܠܘܟܣܝܢܘܣ ܝܘܚܢܢ, ܚܬܳܡܳܐ ܬܪܰܝܳܢܳܐ2nd ed. (Holland: ܡܛܒܥܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐBar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 287. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Sergey Minov, ed., A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Theodora